Draft attachment for harvesting or other machines.



m. 638,592.. Patented Dec. 5, I899, w. n. NEWTON.

DRAFT ATTAEHMENT FOR HARVESTING OR OTHER MACHINES.

(Application filed July 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

j affozncu Y UNITED STATES PATENT FFIcE.

WILLIAM RIGGS NET/VTON, OF SHELBYVILLE, TENNESSEE.

DRAFT ATTACHMENT FOR HARVESTING OR OTHER MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,592, dated December5, 1899. Application filed July 6,1899. Serial No. 722,982. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM Rrces NEW- TON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Shelbyville, in the county of Bedford and State ofTennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DraftAttachments for the Lead-Horses for Harvesting or other AgriculturalMachines; and I do declare the following to be a full,clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to poles or tongues for self-binders or reapersor other harvesting or agricultural machines; and it has for its objectto provide a sim 1e and easily-applied attachment for remo ing theweight of the pole or tongue off the wheel-horses and transferring theside draft of the machine to the lead-horses; and it consists of theparts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a perspective view of the outer end of a pole ortongue,showing my attachment applied thereto and a doubletree for thelead-horses hung. to the attachment; and Fig. 2 is a similar Viewshowing the attachment on a larger scale with the doubletree removed.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both views.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a pole or tongue of the ordinaryor any desired form, to which the neck-yoke B is connected in the usualmanner, and the said pole or tongue is to be coupled to the machine inany desired or common manner.

So far as I am aware it is the general practice to connect thelead-horses to the end of the tongue or pole of harvesters by adoubletree or a chain, to the ends of which the singletrees, generallycalled stretcher-s, are attached, the pole or tongue being supporteddirectly through the neck-yoke by the wheelhorses, which also sustainthe side draft of the machine. Now, as stated above, it is the object ofmy invention to transfer the weight of the pole or tongue and the sidedraft of the machine from the wheel-horses to the lead-horses of theteam and wholly relieve the wheel-horses from such burdens, and this Iaccomplish by connecting the doubletree for the lead-horses to the poleat a point below the line of draft of the machine in such a manner thatthe pulling of the lead-horses will raise the end of the pole or tongue,thus taking the weight off the wheel-horses, and as the lead-horses arepulling direct through the attachment from the end of the tongue ittransfers the side draft of the machine from the wheel-horses to thelead-horses.

In carrying out my invention I secure by bolts or otherwise to the underside of the pole or tongue, and generally at a point from six to teninches or any desired distance from its outer end or free end, abracket-shaped iron D, the ends of which are bent or otherwise adaptedto rest fiat against the pole or tongue and through which the bolts arepassed or connected otherwise to secure the iron rigidly to the pole ortongue. The iron extends about ten or twelve inches down ward from thepole, and at its lower end a loop a is formed in the iron D to receivethe ring O, to which the doubletree E is connected, as shown; but it isevident that it may be formed into a hookand the double tree connectedtherewith without departing from the spirit of my invention. Thus itWill be seen that the point of attachment of the lead-horses is belowthe line of draft of the machine and that the pull of the leadhorsesnecessarily raises or lifts the pole or tongue.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pole or tongue for agricultural machines having a bracket-shapediron projecting downwardly from its outer end and provided with meansfor the attachment of a doubletree for the lead-horses thereto.

2. A pole or tongue for agricultural machines having a bent iron securedto its under side near its outer end, said end projecting downwardlyfrom the pole and being formed for the attachment of a doubletreethereto, whereby the lead-horses maybe connected to the machine at apoint below the normal line of draft thereto.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM RIGGS NEWTON.

